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Overview
A hunter stranded below a cliff persuades a unicorn to help him back onto the road. Once safe, he shoots his rescuer, believing he no longer needs it. Unable to find the way out afterward, he wanders until exhaustion makes him fall to his death. The animal is called a unicorn in Shelton’s English version, but no fuller physical description or Tibetan name is given.
Origins & earliest records
Tibetan narrated traditions, as mediated by the Shelton collection
Records & interpretation
Complete relevant tale, title-page credits, contents and Flora Beal Shelton’s preface read.
Selected bibliography
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Tibetan Folk Tales
Tale 21, The Hunter and the Unicorn, p. 91
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
A. L. Shelton, Tibetan Folk Tales (St. Louis: United Christian Missionary Society, 1925), edited by Flora Beal Shelton
Historical English collection. Tale 21, The Hunter and the Unicorn, p. 91
Full tale directly read, including ending; original contents confirms printed locator. Preface read for mediation and absence of individual narrator identification. Primary witness of this historical translation, not an independently checked Tibetan original.
References
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- Historical translated folktaleShelton, Tibetan Folk Tales (1925), 21, The Hunter and the Unicorn, p. 91Research access: 2026-10-05
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